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Spiritual refining
Spiritual refining: or A treatise of grace and assurance Wherein are handled, the doctrine of assurance. The use of signs in self-examination. How true graces may be distinguished from counterfeit. Several true signs of grace, and many false ones. The nature of grace under divers Scripture notions or titles, as regeneration, the new-creature, the heart of flesh, vocation, sanctification, &c. Many chief questions (occasionally) controverted between the orthodox and the Arminians. As also many cases of conscience. Tending to comfort and confirm saints. Undeceive and convert sinners. Being CXX sermons preached and now published by Anthony Burgess sometime fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and now pastor of the church of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.Spiritual refining: or A treatise of grace and assurance Wherein are handled, the doctrine of assurance. The use of signs in self-examination. How true graces may be distinguished from counterfeit. Several true signs of grace, and many false ones. The nature of grace under divers Scripture notions or titles, as regeneration, the new-creature, the heart of flesh, vocation, sanctification, &c. Many chief questions (occasionally) controverted between the orthodox and the Arminians. As also many cases of conscience. Tending to comfort and confirm saints. Undeceive and convert sinners. Being CXX sermons preached and now published by Anthony Burgess sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and now pastor of the church of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by A. Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1652
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A TREATISE OF GRACE and ASSURANCE; Being CXX. SERMONS. › Section 9 › Sermon 69
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Fourthly, Therefore turn to God, because this will prove thy good, and thy happiness: It makes not at all to Gods happiness: God is all-sufficient, the Sun, to which the Stars contribute no light: My goodness doth not extend to thee, 1Psalm 16. 2. If a man drink of a fountain he bettereth himself, he doth not profit the fountain: If a man see any comfortable objects by the Suns light, he refresheth himself, he doth not advantage the Sun: So it is here; If thou turn to God, God is not made more happy by thee, he needeth not thy conversion, or thy Graces; but it is thy self only that will reap the profit. Oh then let this move thee, What doth this at all avail God? If I turn to him, it is my good, not his that is interested herein? One would think that self-love would herein provoke thee; for will a man give all he hath for a Temporal life, and not much rather for Eternal?
Fourthly, Therefore turn to God, because this will prove thy good, and thy happinesse: It makes not at all to Gods happinesse: God is all-sufficient, the Sun, to which the Starres contribute no light: My goodnesse doth not extend to thee, 1Psalm 16. 2. If a man drink of a fountain he bettereth himself, he doth not profit the fountain: If a man see any comfortable objects by the Suns light, he refresheth himself, he doth not advantage the Sun: So it is here; If thou turn to God, God is not made more happy by thee, he needeth not thy conversion, or thy Graces; but it is thy self onely that will reap the profit. Oh then let this move thee, What doth this at all avail God? If I turn to him, it is my good, not his that is interested herein? One would think that self-love would herein provoke thee; for will a man give all he hath for a Temporal life, and not much rather for Eternal?
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